. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 2. WHITLOW-WORT FAMILY. 29 2. ANYCHIASTRUM Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 400. 1903. Annual or perennial, diffusely spreading or prostrate herbs, the foliage finely pubescent or glabrous, the stipules short or elongated, the small flowers in dichotomous cymes, with bracts similar to the leaves. Flowers manifestly pedicelled. Sepals distinct or nearly so, erect, cuspidate
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 2. WHITLOW-WORT FAMILY. 29 2. ANYCHIASTRUM Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 400. 1903. Annual or perennial, diffusely spreading or prostrate herbs, the foliage finely pubescent or glabrous, the stipules short or elongated, the small flowers in dichotomous cymes, with bracts similar to the leaves. Flowers manifestly pedicelled. Sepals distinct or nearly so, erect, cuspidate or abruptly tipped, not awned. Stamens mostly 5, borne at the base of the ovary. Styles united nearly to the stigmas. Utricle nearly or quite enclosed by the calyx. [Greek, star-Anychia.] Four known species, of the southeastern United States. Type species: Anychiastrum riparium (.Chapm.) Small. I. Anychiastrui'j montanum Small. Moun- tain Anychiastrum. Fig. 1722. Anychiastrum niont Small, Torreya 10: 230. Annual or biennial, minutely pubescent. Stem branched at the base, the branches spreading, diffuse, 2'-8' long, slender, purplish; leaves spatu- late to elliptic-spatulate, acuminate or acutish, 2"-5i" long; stipules silvery; calyx \" long in fruit; sepals ovate to oblong-ovate, .glabrous, abruptly tipped, but not cuspidate. In dry soil, mountains of Pennsylvania to Georgia. 3. ANYCHIA ^lichx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 112. 1803. Annual herbs, with repeatedly forking stems, elliptic oval or oblanceolate opposite mostly punctate very short-petioled leaves, small scarious stipules, and minute green apetal- ous flowers. Calyx 5-parted, its segments oblong, concave, not awned. Stamens 2-5, inserted on the base of the calyx; filaments fihform. Staminodia wanting. Ovary subglobose, com- pressed; styles 2, distinct, or united at the base; ovule solitary, amphitropous. Utricle sub- globose, somewhat compressed, longer than the calyx. [Derivation same as Paronychia.] O
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